It’s no surprise to me that two of the big three game-makers, Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE), are on the list. (Obviously, both have their hands in a very broad range of ground-breaking products and services.) But what is a bit startling is the number of companies on the list with important links to the games industry, some admittedly more vital to the bottom line than others. Still, I’m looking at you Disney (DIS), Dell (DELL), IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), and Wal-Mart (WMT). Check out the index; until S&P drums up a similar product specifically for games companies, this list it seems will stand in well enough.

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No longer child's play, the booming global games market is worth billions of dollars. In Games, Inc., BusinessWeek Innovation writer
Matt Vella and Tokyo correspondent Kenji Hall analyze emerging business trends in video games and interactive entertainment. They’ll examine everything from button-mashing, chart-topping, console games to serious games commissioned by big corporations to train staff. They’ll also map the evolution of expansive virtual worlds and go behind the strategies at companies that are turning play into big business.